I've been planning to add an Picture of the Day for at least two years now, but I never got around to do it. A few hours ago I noticed the screenshot saturday on sunday thread and it basically screamed for proper forum integration! So here it is: a preliminary version this new JGO addon, also reachable through the sidebar, ofcourse.

You can easily add your screenshots and other members can vote on them, rating them on a scale from 1 to 7, which you can change once you have voted.

Every day the image with the highest average rating will take its place in the hall of fame, provided there are at least 5 votes and it has a 'good rating' - the threshold is kept a secret, for obvious reasons. If none of the participating images meet this requirement, that day will not have a specific image in the hall of fame and the last POTD will be shown in the sidebar.

Feedback is welcome, as always

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What about a caption/link to show when clicking the image? For me it does not make much sense just an image with any info whatsoever. IMO the image of the day may be something that attracts users to something, like a game or a project. (Well, maybe I'm wrong, I've never used an "Image of the day" feature before)

is it normal that I can see a picture of my game submitted even if I did not submit anything ? ( or maybe I'm a sleepwalker sleepposter ). The file is uploaded in "My files" but I've never uploaded anything in there either.

1. Vote for multiple screenshots at once. It's a bit time-consuming voting them one at a time and then having to wait for the page to reload. It's okay at the moment, as there aren't that many to vote for, but in the long term it could take a while. Maybe if you kept the radio buttons as the are, but put only one vote button at the top, then people could vote for however many they liked with one button-click. (I guess the only problem with this one is working out which ones weren't voted for and removing them from the vote list)

2. Remove/Edit your own screenshots in the case that (like me (^^see my above post^^)) you broke a link or need to remove a screenshot.

What is really needed is one vote button. You put radio options for as many pictures as you want, scroll to the bottom and vote for all of them at once. The ones you did not put an option to, are the ones left behind. If you want to re-vote, you can make each one of those in this method, to make abuse a bit harder.

Ofcourse not. Once it's out in the open, people will try to manipulate it. There is filtering going on behind the scenes to prevent abuse.

... and therefore it will remain a blackbox.

And what about after it reaches the hall of fame, it does not matter after i guess.Also, it might be awesome to link to the thread where the picture is posted, with most of the pictures i got curious about it orgin, most of the time i want to click it to see what game or program it is.I dont know where these pics come from and how its saved, so i do not know if this is possible to implement.

I think it is totally unfair that it'll skip days just because an image doesn't get a high enough average rating. Maybe make the average rating can be a little bit more forgiving or something. (Or maybe just delete the images from the database if it doesn't make it in the amount of days... but that is just mean.)

I don't think we should just make any image the Picture of the Day. I think we should aim for a certain threshold for the calculated score, and be patient for some image to reach that threshold. If you don't like the fact that one image is there more than one day, make an effort and upload a really good image yourself

Last but not least... why is it 'totally unfair' - can you elaborate ?

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Last but not least... why is it 'totally unfair' - can you elaborate ?

Well, I just wanted to know the reasoning behind it.

I would like to see pictures of different projects get their chance in the light. I think that the bias will always be toward eye candy, because that is just human nature. We like to see pretty stuff. But, gaming isn't just about 3D graphics all the time. It is mostly about getting exposure to new platforms, variety of game play, and different types of visual styles.

I know the system was put in place to stop abuse. I just wondered if the rating system could be given a little slack to allow greater variety of pictures of the day. (However, I can't argue that a revolving door for dead images works well enough to inspire greater pics.)

It's picture of the day, not functionality of the day. That said, some diversity would be good, maybe give images already featured for X days have diminishing returns on their votes for Y days. Or hey people voting could just go for diversity.

It's picture of the day, not functionality of the day. That said, some diversity would be good, maybe give images already featured for X days have diminishing returns on their votes for Y days. Or hey people voting could just go for diversity.

What do you mean exactly? Once an image is featured, you cannot vote on it anymore, and it will never be featured again.

On a side note: I just hacked in POTD comments. The implementation is pretty crappy. We'll see how bad it actually is.

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The POTD shows up in the unread posts, I woke up to 10-12 topics titled POTD. Also, it shows as a child of chitchat.

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